Laptop dead, suggestions?

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Wed May 17 14:57:57 PDT 2006


On Wednesday 17 May 2006 12:13, Warner Losh wrote:
> > Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > > What are the tricks I missed?
> >
> > Why, WHY, oh *WHY*, do people change a post to the 'freebsd-foo' mailing
> > list into _double_ posts to both 'freebsd-foo at freebsd' and 'foo at freebsd',
> > which are the same thing ???  Warner's original post did not post to both
> > names, so somebody who replied must've started the replication.  This
> > happens so often it is annoying, and I finally decided to complain so
> > that maybe people will stop this practice.  (and it doesn't help when the
> > 'old-timers' on these lists, who should know better, blindly reply-all
> > and keep up the replicated messages... ;-) )
>
> there are some mail readers that are stupid that don't provide a nice
> clicky button to turn off their braindamanged behavior.  They grab the
> X-Mail-List header, and use that in coming up with their reply.  Once
> the messages are inserted into the list, others reply and compound the
> problem.  I think Mutt was mentioned as being the problem.
>
> It is a well known problem, but the technical solution is kinda hard.
> Especially since the authors of the mail software are being difficult
> and not providing an override for this brain-damanged and wrong
> behavior.

kmail.  kmail doesn't provide the "clicky button" that I want.

-- 
John Baldwin


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